Ching

See also: ching and Ch'ing

English

Etymology 1

From Cantonese 成 (sing4, seng4, cing4). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Proper noun

Ching (plural Chings)

1. A surname from Cantonese.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ching is the 4772^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7417 individuals. Ching is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (67.12%) and Mixed Race (16.03%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ching”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 327.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 清 (Qīng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹.

Proper noun

Ching

1. Alternative form of Qing
   • 1924 August 2, “Who's Who in China”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[1], volume XXIX, number 9, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 316, column 2‎^[2]:

     General Li Shu-ch’eng was born at Ch’ien-chiang Hsien, Hupei province, in 1873 and was a salaried licentiate or Linsheng in the Ching Dynasty.

   • 1966, Mao Tse-tung, Poems of Mao Tse-tung‎^[3], Eastern Horizon Press, →OCLC, page 63:

     Parakeet Isle or Yingwuchou: in the middle of the river to the south-west of Hanyang. It disappeared during the Ming period to re-emerge in the Ching dynasty in Kang Hsi’s reign. It became famous in the Han dynasty when a great feast was held there and parakeets brought in.

   • 1971, Teng-hui Lee, Intersectoral Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan, 1895–1960‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:

     More skillful farming practices, particularly in rice cultivation, were brought in after the Ching occupation in 1683.

   • 2012 November 27, Kevin Lim, Eveline Danubrata, “No eternal rest for the dead in crowded Singapore”, in Elaine Lies, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 15 October 2022‎^[6]:

     Photographer Shawn Danker, who recently held a photo exhibition to generate awareness about Bukit Brown, cites as an example pre-independent Singapore’s links to the Nationalists who overthrew the Ching Dynasty in 1911.

   • 2016 August 9, “Ellen Tan Drake”, in AP News‎^[7], archived from the original on 10 October 2022‎^[8]:

     Ellen was born in 1927 in Beijing, China, to a prominent Ching dynasty family of scholars and diplomats. Her grandmother on her father’s side was a niece of the Empress Dowager, and her grandfather on her mother’s side was the ambassador to the court of Queen Victoria of England.

   • 2022 February 2, “Talking 'Gangsters of Capitalism' with Jonathan Katz: podcast and transcript”, in MSNBC‎^[9], archived from the original on 3 February 2022:

     At the end of Butler's military career, he goes back to China one more time and this is during sort of China's warlord period, the Qing Dynasty has been overthrown. Largely, they weren't helped by the fact that this invasion of which Butler took part in 1900 against the Boxer Rebellion happened, but the Ching Dynasty has fallen. There's fighting going on over control of China and this is the beginning of the Chinese Civil War, which is between the communists and the nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek.

   • 2022 February 11, Dave Lindorff, “How Can US Accuse Any Nation of Violating ‘Rules-Based International Order’? – OpEd”, in Eurasia Review‎^[10], →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 February 2022:

     China has never acknowledged the independence of Taiwan, which for 50 years prior to the end of World War II had been a colony of Japan, a spoil of victory in the China-Japan War won by Japan against the Ching dynasty in 1895.

   • 2023 January 6, Liu Kuan-ting, Chao Yen-hsiang, “Former Taiwan representative to U.S. Shen Lyu-shun dies”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[11], archived from the original on 06 January 2023, Politics:

     Born in 1949, Shen was a descendant of Shen Pao-chen (沈葆楨), an official of the late Ching Dynasty who made a mark in Taiwan's history by pushing for Taiwan's modernization and the exploration of mountainous areas.

   • 2023 March 30, Karen Mkrtchyan, “Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen visits New York as China warns the US of severe consequences”, in Coinchapter.com‎^[12], archived from the original on 2023-04-06, US‎^[13]:

     Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), was formerly part of the Chinese empire. However, under the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed between Japan and the Chinese Ching dynasty, Taiwan ceased being a part of China.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ching.

Etymology 3

From Manipuri ꯆꯤꯡ (cheeng)

Proper noun

Ching

1. Alternative form of Chingakham surname of Meitei origin
2. Alternative form of Chingangbam surname of Meitei origin
3. Alternative form of Chingshubam surname of Meitei origin
4. Alternative form of Chingtham surname of Meitei origin

Chinese

Etymology

Irregular romanisation of 師兄／师兄 (si¹ hing¹).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ hing¹, cing¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ hing¹, cing¹
    • Yale: sī hīng, chīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ hing¹, tsing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ hing¹, qing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ hɪŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

Ching

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) Alternative form of 師兄／师兄 (si¹ hing¹)

Tagalog

Etymology

From either Hokkien 莊／庄 (Chng) or Cantonese 鄭／郑 (Zeng⁶), via English Ching.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiŋ/, [ˈt͡ʃiŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋ

Proper noun

Ching (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜅ᜔)

1. a surname from Hokkien or Cantonese

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Ching is the 143^rd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 44,210 individuals.

See also

• Cheng
• Chung
• Chong